In 2002, 10 days after BeTomorrow was born, Alcatel signed a 5-year partnership with us to “prototype” new services for the “future” 3G terminals.
At that time, there were no 3G terminals, but only modems produced by NTT DoCoMo.
BeTomorrow was in partnership with Kalisto (now defunct) and imagined that the 3G could be used for players to actually participate live in real car races: for example, they could be (virtually) on the starting grid at a Formula 1 Grand Prix race, with the cars that they could see in the game based on the exact positions of the cars in the actual race!
In fact, that is exactly what BeTomorrow is doing today in the LiveSkipper game (www.liveSkipper.com)!
BeTomorrow created a fully operational demo to show how the principle worked: PCs were connected to 3G to simulate the future terminals (which did not yet exist) and players could compete against mini-racing cars on a Scalextric track.
BeTomorrow created a fully operational demo to show how the principle worked: PCs were connected to 3G to simulate the future terminals (which did not yet exist) and players could compete against mini-racing cars on a Scalextric track.
See some images of this demonstration at the 2002 3GSM World Congress in Cannes.
A PC simulates the 3G mobile phone
And here’s the only “European” 3G terminal in operation in 2002!
